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Actually, you are talking about the Fed forgiving $8T in debt. But the USA has $34.6T in total debt outstanding, right? So, still $26.6T to continue rolling over. What's the "right" amount of debt for the USA to have?

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Maybe 70% of GDP, so $20T should be more manageable

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Good article. I'll point out that politicians are profligate spenders only because voters elect them to do that. Everybody likes free stuff. Nobody likes taxes.

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Yes - indeed. I have had comments saying this would be inflationary because the $8T of cash that would otherwise be sucked out of the economy by the Treasury repaying the debt, would stay in the economy.

I am not so sure. The money is already there. It would phase in over the staggered maturities.

I don’t think it would be a good thing because of the signal it would send but I don’t see another way, absent an energy productivity miracle or inflating the debt away, which has other problems.

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